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Asheboro, N. C., Thursday, December 25, 1930.
Senator Bailey
Predicts A Turn
In Business Tide
Is Most Optimistic Over Out
look Fof ‘ Better Business
After New York Trip.
Worst Has Passed
Several Factors • Contribute To
Optimistic OutlOok For Busi
Senator-elect JosiaJi' William Bail*
ey, who returned to Raleigh Satur
day after a short stay in Now W>rk
and Washington, gave out a state
ment in which he predicted that the
business tide has taken an upward
turn, and “we may now begin to look
hopefully forwafd.”
“It appears that the period of Tthd
panic has passed or ia rapidly pasw-,
ing and that wfe will have from
now <m to contend only with the sfen
preesion” he Said! "The panic was
the worst-feature _«f it .and. jf we
have gotten rid of the panic we may
a<y<imas ourselves to substantial ..ac
tion with thp view to recovering
alowly but surely 'fiwni the depres
sion. * . -- » ’
“The stock market now for a we/ek
has not only been steady but the
prices have been rising and there
have been no serious reactions. This
indicates that confidence .has re
turned in a measure at any rate
Other factors which, Mr. Bailey be
lieves point to upward trend of busi
ness include the improvement in the
textile situation, the government ap
propriation to aid the sufferers from
drought last summer, local aid to the
unemployed and suffering and the
good Christmas trade in evidence the
country over. Continuing, Mr. Bailey
mp
declared:
“1 hope the people of this State
will go into the Christinas season
hopefully and with a ldndly spirit
We ought to look, out for the aged
and the sick and the Httle children
and see that ry one is neglected.
No one of us may do great things
but everyone may do a little for a
little while to help, and then we
may go into the new year with the
f—iing that the worst has happened
and that commodity price* have fal
len as low as they are likely to fall,
that any change will be for the
better. We trill produce our crops
•ext year at less cost than at any
time in perhaps 36 years, and, not
withstanding our crops may he short
because we have not the capital to
make a great outlay, it is likely
that our profits will be greater than
they have been, and next year this
time we will all be in much better
condition. 1 hope from now on
we will interpret our prosperity not
Id terms of extravagance and in
flation, but in terms of saving and
thrift We will yet build up a great
structure of substantial wealth and
happiness in North Carolina. ■_ Let us
keep our heads cool, our hearts in
Seright place, and carry on. L*
creditors and debtors work together
courageously and faithfully, looking
forward to k better day surely eom
Embarrassing!
Bandleman, Dec. 20.—This little
haident occurred in a small town be
fore the day of electrically-lighted
small towns, and the oil lamps was
not always lighted, until twilight had
deepened; so it was not unusual for
one to "walk by faith” which was
irrmrUmoo mklmHing. At twilight
Mary and John had been sitting on
the porch and were starting to
church wham Mary's mother called to
her and advised taking a wrap, as
it Would ha cool enough to need it
coming from church. John •*hs not
lacking in courtesy and said he would
get Mm wrap for Mary, who instruct
ed him where to find it He followed
i 19 the aisle, John noticed that
smiled apd thought it was l>w
he hadTgotten ahead of his
-i but when ho • — *~
Mary's coat on _
ha found that he ..
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down to
of the
EDS WITH MR. DODSON
■ * __» ■ .l,
Dee. Um Margaret
Floyd a Dodmm "***
weather 20 at Roek Hill,
announced. Um bride is
ire daughter of M* aad
Staley, of Liberty, route
Deaths
Mrs. H. P. Kearns
Mrs. Ruth Skeen Kearns, 27, wife
of H. P. Kearns, of Farmer, died at
a High Point Hospital late Sunday
night, following a week’s illness from
erysipelas. Mrs. Kearns is survived
by her husband and two small sons,
Richard and David; her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. M. F. Skeen; one brother,
Paul Skeen; and one sister, Mary
Lewis Skeen, all of Farmer. Funeral
.and burial services will be conducted
from Concord M. E. church Tuesday
at 2:00 P. M., with the pastor of the
church, Rev. D. A. Highfill, in charge.
Mrs. Sarah A. Phillips
Funeral was held at Fall Creek
Baptist church Saturday afternoon by
■Rev. J. C. Kidd for Mrsr S&raft A
Phillips, 70, who died Thursday at the
home of her son, 0. F. Phillips, near
Bennett. She is survived by four
sons, Lonnie, Herbert, Joe and C. F.
Phillips, of the Bennett community;
and four daughters, Mrs. C. F. Davis,
Coleridge; Mrs. Sam Scott, McCon
nell; and Mrs. C. R. Jones and Mrs.
J. R. Nalls, both of Bennett.
f
Mrs. Maude Allred, 57, wife
jjherman Allred, died_suddenly Fri
day morning at ner home’ two miles
north of Cedar Falls from paralysis.
Funeral was conducted at 2 o’clock
Saturday afternoon from Cedar Falls
M. P. church by Rev^ Joel Trogdon.
Mrs. Allred is survived by her hus
band, two daughters, Mrs. Earl Cox,
of Ramseur, and Mrs. Talmadge
Jones, of Millboro, R. F. D.; four
sons, Theodore, Clyde and Jesse • All
red, of Cedar Falls, and Clay Allred,
of Thomasville; a half-sister, Mrs.
Charlie Smith, of Asheboro, and two
half-brothers, Rev. E. T. Lowdermilk,
and John Lowdermilk, of Phoenix
Oregon.
Mrs. Maude Allred
of
Major Usk’s War
Record As Given By
Late Major Stedman
Major J. A. Iisk, ef Mt Gilead,
who Is hale and hearty and happy
despite his 90 years has recently made
public a letter written him by Major
Charles M. Stedman, Congressman
from the fifth North Carolina dis
trict for a number of years prior to
his death last September. The let
ter Is as follows: r
My dear Old Comrade and Maj.
Friend: I have been thinking of you
many times dmrtsw-thfc last few mon
ths and hoping that some day I might
have an opportunity to run down to
your home to see you. 1 am now
afraid that I will not be able to
do so at an early date, but I cannot
refrain from sending you a few lines
to tell you that I shall never forget
the scenes we went through together,
and all your kindness to me. I re
collect wen that you were of the
last to leave Bristow Station, if I am
not mistaken, you placed a flag onthe
voiks at Yellow Tavern. I see you right
now as you held the flag of our regi
ment on the battle field of the Wild
erness when seven of theCold* Guard
had fallen and I recollect that, at
my request, after night, you wmit
back teto the Yankee Imes and
brought bade the body of my fnend,
Captain Gains, and that you, wtth
some Others of my fnends, buried
bte. I recollect also that I spited
you one of the pall bearers of Stone
wal1 Jackson. 1 also recoUect that
[ .selected sou for a very dangerous
luty near little Washington; m fact,
whenever I desired any duty ^ be
performed by a contentious and
brave soldier, you were among the
first of whom I thought
You and I are getting old men with
our faces turned far towwda Oie
West, and neither of us w® JjVJgj
to forget the days we
long ago. If you ever come toGreens
boro, <»me to my house.
me to afl your people.
wishes ice your happiness sad pros
Your friend,
C&AS. M. STERMAN.
PULATIGN IN SEVENTH ^
DISTRICT THIRD LAR^*»T
in
- Congressional- district m
according to census figure.
have a
^ the fifth: -W**
• the nfath with 414,808.
of «th«f ttetriets i*:
IS? seUnd, *76795; tMrd,
mrth, 286,087; **&. JgJ*
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Snow Caused Most
County Schools To
Close Wednesday
Those Not Closed Automatically
Were Ordered Closed By"
County Superintendent.
To Open Dec. 31st
And On January 5 th—May Re
main Closed Longer If An
other Snow Comes.
All schools in the county were clos
ed Wednesday morning of last week,
date of the 18-inch snow, until after
the Christmas holidays. Those which
did not close automatically on account
of lack of pupils that morning or by
action of school principals, were or
dered, closed,by the county superin
tendent. These schools will open aft
er ~the holidays either on December
31st dr January 6th.
The Asheboro city schools closed
Wednesday morning by action of the
superintendent and will be opened
after the holidays on Wednesday, Dec
31st or January 5th.
It would have been impossible last
Wednesday morning to have continu
ed school. In the rural districts, es
pecially, it was impossible for.pupils,
and in some instances teachers, to get
to school. It was difficult enough in
town, where not more than half the
pupils negotiated the snow. Should
there come another snow on top* of
that which already covers the ground,
school may be closed even longer than
first anticipated.
MISS JOY BELL CLAPP
WEDS WITH MR. PIKE
Liberty, Dec. 20.—ifass Joy Bell
Clapp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Clapp, of Liberty, and Walter E. Pike,
were married December 12 at the
home of Rev. D. I. Qffman, with Mr.
Offman performing the ceremony.
The ring service of the Lutheran
church was used.
The bride, who was educated at the
local high school and is popular with
the younger set here, was becomingly
attired in a dress of eopon blue,
trimmed in eggshell with accessories
to match.
The young couple will lijve on Bur
lington route 1, Mr. Pike holding a
position with the Standard Hosiery
mills.
&AKSEUR HONOR ROLL
Following is the November honor
roll for Ramseur school:
First grade, section A: Goldie Stin
son, William Rightsell, Herman Khr
ett, Margaret Scott, Bernice Barger,
Nellie Grace Newell, Ctara May
Nixon, Martha Nell Luther, Edna
Earle Cox.
First grade, section B: Arnold Ed
wards, Dorothy Mann, Fleta Tate
Caveness, Harold Jones, Mary Brewer,
Lucy York, Lillie Welbom, Earl Kiv
ett.
Second grade: Georgia Caveness,
Sibyl Brown, Thelma Highfill, Mary
B. Nonpan, Mary Arm Parks, J. L.
Williams, Jr., Garland Williamson,
Betty Joyce Jones, Margaret Ann
White, Betty Brady.
TMrd grade, section A: Frances
Baldwin, Mary Lois Rightsell, Ollie
Dezem, Mary Brown, Esther Burgess,
Howard Brady, Louise Scott, Mary
Lee Craven, Virginia Barger.
Third grade, section B: Elizabeth
Stinson, Lillian Wilson, Vdvis Hicks,
Sidney York.
Fourth grade: Marie Beane, Marie
Brown, Mary Carter Jones, Nancy
Stroupe, Elsie Lee Caveness, Steroid
Ellis, Cecil York, C. JBL York, Jr.,
Joe Harris Marley, Oara Jones.
Fifth grade: Lois Brown, Garland
Ellis, Nettie Moody, Aileen Staley,
Fred Chrisco, Edna Nixon, Eugenia
Brady, Sarah Grimes, Margaret Gant,
James Oox.
Sixth grade: Vaughn Hampton Dor
sett, Marie Cavenssa, Fenton Beane,
Sara Steele.
Seventh grade: Mildred Craven,
Howard Cm, James Thorns*.
Eight grade: Jupe Beane, Frank
Kivett, KeTtnit Pell, Edna Highfill,
Carrie Needham. ■
Ninth grade: Herman Hicks, Clauds
Ward, Edith Stuart, Thelma Wright,
Elsie Kimrey.
Tenth grade: Charles Domett, Bo
genia Lane, Dorothy Dixon.
Eleventh grade: Bessie Cox, Fler
met Macon, Vernon PelL
HONOR ROLL
Following u> honor roll for Provi
dence school, third month:
First grade: James Macon, J. B.
Pugh, Swannie Barker, Audrey Fields,
Ruth Gregson, Mary Lee Macon,
Geneva Millikan.
' Second grade: Ina Fields.
Third grade: Clarence Gregson,
.Iris Fields, Dorothy Ward.
Fourth grade: Francise Neece.
Fifth grade: Mary. Louise Kirkman.
.. .. Sixth grade: Pauline Baxter.
Seventh grade: Fannie Pugh.
Bight grade: Margaret* Oliver,
Ivsr Pugh, Elisabeth Neece,. Wayne
White, „ , ' ,
Ninth grade:. $eorge Baiter, Panl
Hockett
Tenth grade: "Virginia Nteee, I*»
nard Macon, Dougan Kirkman.
Binranth ^SffePugh.
Baptist Church
Sunday School 0:45, Miss
Supt; Preaching
11:00.
Luther B. Gardner
Is Killed When His
Car Is Hit By Train
Former Randolph County Man
Loses Life At A High Point
Railway Crossing.
Luther B. Gardner, middle-aged
foreman of the Knox Furniture
Manufacturing Company of High:
Point, was instantly killed Friday |
when the Chevrolet ear in which he
was riding was struck by a Southern
railway train ait the Burton street
crossing In the furniture city. The
ear was carried 50 feet down the
track and Mr. Gardner, who lives in
High Point, was dead when found.
There were no eye witnesses to the
tragedy. Mr. Gardner was the four
th person to have been killed at that
crossing in three years. An under
pass is under construction within
sight of the place the tragedy oc
curred.
Mr. Gardner was native of Ran
dolph county, having lived in the
Parks Cross Roads community for
many years. He at one time operated
a garage at Coleridge, and had moved
to High Point only a few years ago.
Funeral was held Sunday from Parks
Cross Roads church, near his form
er residence, and interment made in
the church' cemetery.
He leaves his widow, a daughter,
Myrtle Gardner, 12; two sons, Boyd
and Broughton Gardner, all of High
Point; and two sisterd, Mrs. W. R.
Bray and Mrs. Nellie Doreett, both of
High Point.
Democrats Are Not
Hoover’s “Yes-Men”
Says Jouett Shouse
Washington.—In a recent speech
to the Democratic Women’s Lunch
eon Club in Newark, Jouett Shouse,
Chairman of the Democratic Na
tional Executive Committee, stress
ed the statement that the recent
announcement of Democratic party
leaders expressing their views con
cerning Democratic policy in Con
gress did not mean that Democratic
nriples would be sacrificed or
the organization would become
a party of “yes-men’’ for the Pres
ideal.
"On the contrary,” said Chairman
Shouse, "our legislators will retain
and reserve to themselves the de
cision on the validity of administra
tion projects and their title to be
dpemed for the public good.”
He said that the Democrats would
not accept “the Grundy tariff” dr
"such subterfuges” as the Hoover
farm relief plan and that “unit"
officials would not be confirmed
merely because they had been nam
ed by Mr. Hoover. He said that
of course, no small group, whoever
they are, could commit the Demo
cratic Party to any"fixed policy, but
that the names of the party leaders
attached to the declaration refer
red to "are hostages for the sin
cerity set forth."
He criticised the Hoover Admin
istration for its failure to meet the
present depression and unemploy
ment in a masterly way and chang
ed that it was '“bewildered and still
drifting.”
FRANK G. GRIMES GIVES
SUMMARY OF GAME LAWS
Mr. Frank G. Grimes, secretary to
the late William C. Hammer when he
was United States Attorney for the
Western North Carolina district, and
well known to many people in Ashe
boro where he and his family resided
for several years, and who is now
with the United States Biological
Survey, is one of the authors of some
interesting pamphlets furnished by
this Survey. These are a Summary
of the Federal, State and Provincial
Statutes of the Game Laws for the
Season 1930-31, and a similar sum
mary of the Fur Laws. The summary
• fthe fur laws is exclusively by Mr.
Grimes while on the other summary
he collaborated with Frank L. Barn
shaw.
Join Cooperative*
Tobacco growers in Halifax coun
ty signed up 850 thousand pounds of
the leaf in the new tobacco coopera
tive association at a recent meeting.
Registration of unemployed in High
Point shows that nearly 1,000 per
sona in the furniture city are out of
work and looking for jobs.
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News In Brief
Short Items Of Important
Happenings Of Week.
Four more North Carolina banks
closed their doors the latter part of
last week, these being at Elizabeth
City, Lenoir, Gibson and Garysburg.
Sixty pupils of the Dan River high
school and seven teachers were ma
rooned over night Wednesday of last
week due to inability of school bus
to travel over snow-covered roads.
The school is located near Danville,
Va.
Dr. William P. Jacocks, who was
elected secretary to the State Board
of Health several months ago, and
who is doing health work in Ceylon,
India, has accepted the post, provid
ed time is given him to finish the pro
ject in which he is engaged.
A thousand loaves of bread on a
stalled Atlantic and Pacific Tea Com
pany truck in High Point Thursday
were ordered by Charlotte headquar
ters of the company to be turned over
to the city welfare officer to be dis
tributed among the needy.
Special Judge H. Hoyle Sink, of
Lexington, was last Saturday named
by Governor Gardner regular Superi
or Court Judge for the 12th Judicial
district to succeed Judge-elect J. D.
Humphreys, of Danbury, who was
elected to the office November 4th
and died before time for qualifying.
No immediate appointment of a
special judge will be made to take
Sink’s place.
Frank R. McNinch, of Charlotte,
leader of the Anti-Smith Democrats
in North Carolina in 1928, was last
Saturday confirmed by 'the United
States as a member of the federal
power commission, following his
nomination to the job by President
Hoover.
JAMBS E. SPENCE AND
MISS ANNE HOLLER WED
A marriage of interest in Ran
dolph county recently in Statesville
was that of Mr. James Edmond
Spence, Jr., of Siler City, with Miss
Anne Louise Holler, of Statesville.
Following a motor trip to Florida the
young couple will be at home in Siler
City where the groom is connected
with the Buckner-Spence Lumber
Company. The groom is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J^E, Spence, of Cole’s
Store, Randolph county.
HONOR ROLL
Following is the honor roll third
month of Archdale school:
Grade 1: Margaret Erobler, Betty
Lou Rose, Oleta Bulla, Jean Blalock,
Eugene Marsh.
Grade 2: Maxine Elliott, Mary Ona
Allred, Willard Payne, Roland Hil
liard, James Gatewood.
Grade 3: Eugene Canip, Talmadge
Hilliard, Edward Lewallen, Forrest
Jones, Mary Lou McKenzie, Evelyn
Rose.
Grade 4: James Payne, Buel Pless,
Darrell Allred, Virginia Gilmore.
Grade 5: Jane McKenzie, James
Gilmore, Esther Briles, David Can
non, Sacah Baldwin. ,
Grade 6: Magdalina Church, Addie
Grade 7: Raeford English, Charles
McKenzie, Ralph Payne, Ruby Bald
win, Myra Barker, Rachel Anne Mo
CampbelL \ _ , .
Correction: Myra Barker was not
on the honor roll last month.
The second grade, Miss Alexander's
room, won the treat for the neatest
room. Sixth and seventh grades,
Mr. Payne’s room, won the attend
ance banner. ^
! In the McCall doll dress contest,
Bdna Wilson won first prize, Helen
Staley, won second prize and Violet
Moaer won third prim.
Better Acreage Income
Itee was a difference in income
per acre of $90.71 where -the new to
bacco fertilizer formula 10-4-6 was
used in demonstrations conducted in
Person county by farm agent H. K.
Sanders last season.
James Lutz, 4-H dub boy of New
ton, route 4, Catawba county produc
ed 124.6 bushels of com and won
$79 in exhibit premiums from his
club acre this year, reports county
agent J. Wade Hendricks.
Heavy Snow Delays Courier's
Rotogravure Edition
Last week's heavy fall of snow, which pat a complete stop
to the work of the photographer, and also delayed the contact
work, to a great degree will cause some delay in the issuance
of the Rotogravure Edition of Randolph County which The
Courier had hoped to publish early in January. It is bow plan
ned to dose the work of preparation by January 10th, at
which time the copy and pictures will be sent to the engravers.
r Since last week’s issue of the paper two of the largest
manufacturing interests'in the county have completed arrange
ments for the representation of their respective plants in this
issue, and a number of other concerns have done likewise. It
is our earnest desire to make the edition in every way represen
fressive dty and county a really worthwhile
tty pnhUdty, and this can be done by the
who have not yet arranged for iepresenta
facturing and banking interests, and mapy
L. T. Parks Makes
First Visit To High
Point In 65 Years
Sees And Hears TaJkie For First
Time In Life—Recognizes
Landmarks.
The following is taken from Sun
day’s High Point Enterprise:
Here is a man who last Thursday
made his first visit to High Point
since sixty-five years ago. His latest
previous visit was made the year of
Lee’s surrender. He was in this city
for a short time in 1866, and he says
he never would have known the place.
The infrequent visitor is L T.
Parks, of Randolph county. He lives
on the farm near Parks’ cross roads,
beyond Ramseur. From the same
community came to High Point the'
city’s present postmaster, O. R. York,
and its mayor, C. A. York. The
Yorks were neighbor boys to Mr.
Parks, who is much interested in their
prominence in the life of the city.
Wednesday of the past week, Mr.
Parks went to Greensboro, a city
he has visited somewhat more fre
quently than he has come to High
Point. That night he went to a
Greensboro theater and saw and heard
a talkie. It was his first experience
with that form of entertainment. Hie
liked it. Although he has adhered
rather closely to his home through
out his 79 years, Mr. Parks is broad
minded. He readily confesses that
there are points of merit to the
white way.
Several of Mr. Parks’ children
have been more inclined to wander.
One son was abroad during the world
war and has been over a goodly part
of the world. Another is an officer
in a Detroit bank. The father says
he has lived lustily enough in Ran
dolph. He says he never drank
whiskey or used tobacco. Prohibition
may be all right, he says, but it
was not necessary to help him. He
developed his own prohibition.
There’s nothing in High Point that
Mr. Parks recognized after 66 years.
He remembered that the Jarrell hotel
and one or two stores stood here
when he was here before. The old
plank road was falling into disrepair
than and High Point was about five
years old and amounted to nothing
more than a small cluster of housing
at a muddy cross-roads.
Good Egg Layers
Born, Not Made
The BfciMtf- Peer Stodfe Beee
Not Pay Her Keep And
Should Be Eliminated.
Good egg-layers are bom, not
made. The hen that has been bred
for the job of egg-making is an as
set to the poultry raiser and should
be given every opportunity to exer
cise her talent along this line, es
pecially at this time of year when
quality fresh eggs brings high pric
es. The bird of poor stock does not
pay her keep and should be speedily
eliminated from the flock.
Good stock is essential if the
poultryman is to get more eggs in
the winter and, consequently, make
greater profits, declare poultry au
thorities. One way of insuring a
flock of hens ‘ibom to lay eggs" is
to obtain baby chicks from a reliable
hatchery that pays particular atten
tion to productive breeds, they ad
vise. Such stock Is'easily obtainable,
for leading hatcheries of the United
States are cooperating under the
slogan "Hatchery Chicks for Greater
Profits" for the purpose of increas
ing the quality of hens on American
farms.
However, without good housing,
correct feeding and proper manage
ment, even the best of egg-laying
breeds will not function at maximum
efficiency, experts point out.
A dean, comfortable, well-ventilat
ed house that is free from draughts
is necessary. As crowding of birds
Is one of the most common mistakes,
it is well to allow three square feet
of space per bird for light breeds
and four square feet for heavy
breeds. Summer conditions should
be supplied as far as light and sun
shine are concerned. Artificial lights
should be used to give the fowls a
full 12-hour day. Wisely administer
ed cod liver oil will counteract the
lack of sunlight during the winter.
The poultryman should consider
what is necessary besides mash and
scratch feeds and in order to be suc
cessful he must have a definite plan
of feeding. Laying mash should be
available in open hoppers at all
times. Sufficient scratch grain should
be provided to send the fowls to
roost with Ml crops. Green feeds
are needed to keep the digestion
tract in good condition. Oyster shell
or other calcium material should al
ways be kept where the birds can
have access to it A good supply of
clean water, heated so it is not ice
cold, is important
State b Sixth Place
North Carolina ranked sixth among
the 48 states in the union in the value
of farm crops in 1930, as against 8th
place the previous year. Value of
the 1930 farm crop in the State was
$240,206,000, which was, however,
about #00,000 less than the 1929
value. Values in other states also
fell below the 1929 totals,
Most Useful Man
In North Carolina
Is John McQueen
According1 To An , Interesting
Article In January Issue
American Magazine.
The Golden Rule
Followed By Sage Of Sandhill
—Never Neglects An Oppor
tunity To Help.
The "most useful man in North
Caroling,” according: to an article hi
the January American Magazine, »
John McQueen of Pinehurst.
In the world of business Mr. Mc
Queen is known as president of the
Carolina Coal and By-Products Com
pany, and president of the Bank of
Pinehurst, North Carolina. He was
for eight years manager of the town
of Pinehurst; before that he was a
fanner, lumberman, and builder of
electric power plants.
His community activities are sum
med up in the magazine article as
follows:
“In his reverence for the memory
of his mother and his zeal to answer
her prayer, this man McQueen has
made it a rule of his life, from early
boyhood, not only to practice the
Golden Rule but to give one fourth
of his time to helping others. In do
ing this religiously over a period of
many years he has given away almost
as fast as he has accumulated, and
has neglected many opportunities to
feather his own nest. But he makes
money in spite of himself, and his
interest in a coal mine that scientists
once laughed at is reputed to be
worth easily a half million dollars te
day.
“In May, 1925, after he had openr
ed tip the long abandoned mine and
was beginning to make it pay, the en
tire workings were wrecked by an
explosion, which killed fifty-three
men. Every dollar John McQueen had
in the world was wiped out. But he
thought first of the families of those
dead miners. It took him six months
to round up the bereaved dependents,
for they were scattered over seven
states, from Maryland to Alabama.
Then, with borrowed money, he sc£>>
tied with every one of them. Now the
mine is going again, and producing
better than' ever before.
“When there are important functions
at tfaehnfst, others may ‘ come to
their dinner clothes or full dress, but
Mr. McQueen, a plain, Will-Rogers
looking man comes in his one dark,
unpressed business suit, coarse negli
gee shirt, a loose little string tid)
and a floppy old black hat of . tbs
vintage of 1880. He comes driving asT
old open flivver, the curtains of whiffet
have never been taken from under
the seat. He carries an overcoat om
the back seat of his car. Friends -
long insisted that he should have an
overcoat; he bought one to satisfy
them, but has never worn it And''
he can leave that overcoat on the -
back seat of his old machine anywhere -
in Moore county and no one wilt’
steal it for everybody knows John
McQueen’s old car, aSd.Bobody would?
steal from John McQueen. ^ .
His home is a modest little eo*!*
tage four or five rooms with no evi
dence of luxuries. It has no tele
phone.
' “I want a telephone in the house
the wont in the world,” says Mrs. Mc
Queen, "but I had to have our phone
taken out to save Mr. McQueen. %
allows himself only six hours’ sleep
a night and he has only an hour or
two in the evening for a little social
life and recreation before bedtime
And there is someone wanting him «B
the time.”
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JUNIOR PHILATHEA CLASS
HOLDS MONTHLY MEETING
Worthville, Dw. 18.—The Junior
Phil at he* class of the M. P. Sunday
school held their regular monthly
meeting Friday evening in the home
of Misses Josephine and Opal Gilee.
Miss Josephine Giles presided over
the fouaineea meeting. After the
transaction of all old business, of*
Deers were elected as follows: Presi
dent, Florence Pickett; class secre
tary, Dorothy Julian; assistant secre
tary, Jeanette Ward; Sunday school
class secretary and treasurer, Maxine
Kirkm&n; and assistant secretary and
treasurer Joyce Johnson. The dam
also elected several social committees
A social hour followed with seeemi
contests that carried out the Christ
mas note. The hoe*—ses served da
licious refreshments.
MISS MINNIE SHAW BRIDE_
OF THOMAS B. CASHWEL6
Miss Minnie Shaw, daughter of Mr.
add Mrs. a W. Shaw, of Striate,
Randolph county and brother of K A
and E. A, Shew, of Asheboro, was
united in marriage Wednesday*even
ing, December 17, with Mr. Tnomaa
Herman Cashwell, of Winston-Salem.
Immediately following the ceremoaj
the young couple left on a weddiftt